If retarded people weren't told they were retarded when they were younger, what happens to them?

Answer 1

They get a PhD

Answer 2

I had a friend who was never told she was retarded. She knew she was "a bit dumb" because she made poor grades in school, but teachers would pass her anyway to keep her up with the other kids. (There weren't many special ed classes in those days, and you had to be in pretty bad shape to be in one). So she grew up and her sisters kept an eye on her, but she eventually got a job cleaning the salad bar in a small hamburger place, paid her own rent and made her way just fine. She worked in the same place for over 20 years until it closed, then got a job washing dishes in a nursing home. She is eccentric in many ways, and can't spell worth anything, but she writes letters to me, and I can certainly understand what she communicates. I wouldn't say that she is severely retarded or anything. But at first the doctors said she would never get beyond 8 years old mentally. Seems she made them wrong!

Answer 3

They figure it out eventually. It's pretty obvious they can't do everything a person of normal intelligence can. And even if you treat them like a person of normal intelligence and don't help them out you'll just set them up for failure b/c bad stuff will happen to them.

Answer 4

i often have thought they just never told me.